Louisiana’s newly elected Democratic Governor, John Bel Edwards, has proposed a package of tax increases to fix a $940 million budget deficit. Now, before you run off and grab a calculator to try and figure out what kind of numbers we’re talking about, consider the word “million” attached to the end of that $940 and let that sink in for a moment.
This won’t be a small, unnoticeable tax hike. It’ll be the kind of tax hike that casts a very large shadow over the finances of everybody who voted Edwards into office and those who didn’t.
How is he going to get something like this passed in a GOP-controlled state legislature, you might be wondering. Well, for starters, he issued a warning that should his tax package be rejected, “you can say goodbye” to the LSU Tigers, which is Louisiana’s biggest college football team.
He followed that “threat” by saying that campuses could run out of money and be forced to shut down. Not that that would actually happen, but is closing down a college a bigger deal than closing down the state economy?
Read what GOP treasurer, John Kennedy had to say on the next page.
Scared?
Lol he’ll go before the tigers!
There’s that UN-American, UN-Constitutional flag, again! Get that, horrid, gold fringe off our flag! That’s a wartime, martial law flag! It wipes out the American Constitution, and all of our rights. Anyone representing this flag is NOT representing The People. http://www.tonyrogers.com/news/gold_fringed_flag.htm
Bully
Wow, another Obama, threats, call him on his bluff! Tell him to sink in a rat hole where he belongs! Who does he think he is?
Gotta love those democrat socialists. Loo
War eagle
put politicians on minimum wage and see how fast$#%&!@*changes
Scared ? Lmao …that would b 16….let me know when u get to 5..
Some things are more important than a game called football get over it